user datagram protocol
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English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- (Internet) A communications protocol that has no error recovery features, and is mostly used to stream material over the Internet.
- Synonym: UDP
- 1980 August 28, Jon Postel, “User Datagram Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 768:
- This User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is defined to make available a datagram mode of packet-switched computer communication in the environment of an interconnected set of computer networks.